Please see below for a list of my most recent publications. Check out my Google Scholar profile for a more complete list.
* denotes W&M undergraduate author; ** denotes W&M graduate student author; *** denotes non-W&M student author
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*French, L.C., M.A. Jusino, R.M. Chambers, and J. Skelton. 2024. Community structure and functional diversity of aquatic fungi are correlated with water quality: Insights from multi-marker analysis of environmental DNA (eDNA) in a coastal watershed. Environmental DNA 6: e576. https://doi.org/10.1002/edn3.576
Reinsel, M.B., *M.A. Gibson, *N.M. Klesch, & R.M. Chambers. 2023. Bycatch reduction devices exclude diamondback terrapins and maintain blue crab catch in two Virginia tidal creeks. Marine and Coastal Fisheries: Dynamics, Management, and Ecosystem Science, 15, e10263. https://doi.org/10.1002/mcf2.10263
Leu, M., R.E. Isdell, **R.M. Galvin III, *A.J. Rapp, **S.D. Mason, D.M. Bilkovic, and R.M. Chambers. 2023. “ Comparable use of tidal living shorelines and natural-fringe marshes by herons and shorebirds.” Ecosphere 14: e4683. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4683
Zhao, J., C. Seemanti, R. Chambers, P. Weisenhorn, R. Travieso, S. Stumpf, E. Standen, H. Briceno, T. Troxler, E. Gaiser, J. Kominoski, B. Dhillon, W. Martens-Habbena. 2023. Year-around survey and manipulation experiments reveal differential sensitivities of soil prokaryotic and fungal communities to saltwater intrusion in Florida Everglades wetlands. Science of The Total Environment 858.
*Levine, A.J., E.M. Turrietta*, D.M. Bilkovic and R.M. Chambers. 2022. Demographic and trophic analysis of adult grass shrimp (Palaemonetes pugio) from living shoreline and natural tidal marshes in Chesapeake Bay. Northeastern Naturalist 29:207-228.
**Guthrie, A.G., D.M. Bilkovic, M.M. Mitchell, R.M. Chambers, J. Thompson and R.E. Isdell. 2022. Ecological equivalency of living shorelines and natural marshes for fish and crustacean communities. Ecological Engineering 76:106511.
Langston, A., D. Coleman, N. Jung, J. Shawler, A. Smith, B.Williams, S. Wittyngham, R. Chambers, J. Perry and M. Kirwan. 2021. The effect of marsh age on ecosystem function in a rapidly transgressing marsh. Ecosystems. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10021-021-00652-6
**Humphreys, A., A.L. Gorsky, D.M. Bilkovic and R.M. Chambers. 2021. Changes in plant communities of low-salinity tidal marshes in response to sea-level rise. Ecosphere 12:e03630. 10.1002/ecs2.3630
Bilkovic, D.M., R.E. Isdell, A. Guthrie, M. Mitchell and R. Chambers. 2021. Ribbed mussel Geukensia demissa population response to living shoreline design and ecosystem development. Ecosphere. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.3402
Chambers, R.M., A.L. Gorsky, E. Castañeda-Moya and V.H. Rivera-Monroy. 2021. Evaluating a steady-state model of soil accretion in Everglades mangroves (Florida, USA) Estuaries & Coasts. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-020-00883-1
Chambers, R.M., A.L. Gorsky, R.E. Isdell, M.M. Mitchell and D.M. Bilkovic. 2021. Comparison of nutrient accrual in constructed living shoreline and natural fringing marshes. Ocean and Coastal Management. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105401
Castañeda-Moya, E., V.H. Rivera-Monroy, R.M. Chambers, X. Zhao, L. Lamb-Wotton, A. Gorsky, E.E. Gaiser, T. Troxler, J. Kominoski, and M. Hiatt. 2020. Hurricanes fertilize mangrove forests in the Gulf of Mexico (Florida Everglades, USA). Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117: 4831-4841.
Gorsky, A.L.,*G.A. Racanelli, *A.C. Belvin and R.M. Chambers. 2019. Greenhouse gas flux from stormwater ponds in southeastern Virginia (USA). Anthropocene 28. doi 10.1016/j.ancene/2019.100218.
Balascio, N.L., J.M. Kaste, *M.G. Meyer, *M. Renshaw, *K.L. Smith and R.M. Chambers. 2019. A high-resolution mill pond record from eastern Virginia reveals the impact of past landscape changes and regional pollution history. Anthropocene 25. doi 10.1016/j.ancene/2019.100190.
**Sutter, L.A., R.M. Chambers, M. Karp* and J.E. Perry. 2019. A test of top-down control on plant production and nutrient quality in low-salinity tidal marshes. Aquatic Sciences 81:16-25.
**Cook, C.E., A. M. McCluskey* and R.M. Chambers. 2018. Impacts of invasive Phragmites australis on diamondback terrapin nesting in Chesapeake Bay. Estuaries & Coasts 41:966-973.
*Grubbs, S.P., H. Funkhouser*, P. Myer*, M. Arendt, J. Schwenter and R.M. Chambers. 2018. To BRD or not to BRD? A test of bycatch reduction devices for the blue crab fishery. North American Journal of Fisheries Management 38:18-23.
*Corso, A.D., J.C. Huettenmoser*, O.R. Trani*, K. Angstadt, D.M. Bilkovic, K.J. Havens, T.M. Russell, D. Stanhope, and R.M. Chambers. 2017. Experiments with by-catch reduction devices to exclude diamondback terrapins and retain blue crabs. Estuaries & Coasts. 40:1516-1522.
Saxton, M.A., N.S. Naqvi*, F. Rahman*, C.P. Thompson*, R.M. Chambers, J.M. Kaste, and K.E. Williamson. 2016. Site-specific biogeochemical factors control bacterial and viral diversity in stormwater retention ponds. Aquatic Microbial Ecology 77:23-36.
Julian, P., R. Chambers and T. Russell. 2016. Iron and pyritization in wetland soils of the Florida coastal Everglades. Estuaries and Coasts. doi:10.1007/s12237-016-0180-3.
Morris, J.T., D.C. Barber, J. Callaway, R. Chambers, S.C, Hagen, B.J. Johnson, P. Megonigal, S.C. Neubauer, T. Troxler, and C. Wigand. 2016. A synthesis of sediment bulk density and loss on ignition data from coastal wetlands: The limits of vertical accretion. Earth’s Future 4:110-121.
Lu, Y. H., X. Li, R. Mesfioui, J.E. Bauer, R. M. Chambers, E. A. Canuel, P. G. Hatcher. 2015. Use of ESI-FTICR-MS to characterize dissolved organic matter in headwater streams draining forest-dominated and pasture-dominated watersheds, PLOS ONE. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0145639
**Holley, L.L., **M.D. Heidman, R.M. Chambers and S.L. Sanderson. 2015. Mucus contribution to gut nutrient content in American gizzard shad Dorosoma cepedianum. Journal of Fish Biology 86:1457–1470.
**Sutter, L.A., R.M. Chambers and J.E. Perry. 2015. Saltwater intrusion mediates species transition in low salinity, tidal marsh vegetation. Aquatic Botany 122:32-39.
**Isdell, R.E., R.M. Chambers, D.M. Bilkovic, and M. Leu. 2015. Effects of terrestrial–aquatic connectivity on an estuarine turtle. Diversity and Distributions.
*Gilliand, S.C., R.M. Chambers and M.D. LaMar. 2014. Modeling the effects of crab potting and road traffic on a population of diamondback terrapins. Proceedings of the Symposium on Biomathematics and Ecology: Education and Research. 12 pp.